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Hydra's ultimate objective is to effectively intertwine its technical and community threads of development, producing a community-sourced, sustainable application framework that provides rich and robust repository-powered solutions as an integrated part of an overall digital content management architecture. Such solutions can meet the distinct needs of digital library, institutional repository, discipline repository, research, preservation and publishing workflows.
== Mendeley and University Libraries: 3 examples to create value ==
* Jan Reichelt, Co-Founder, Mendeley
Mendeley (http://www.mendeley.com) is a technology startup that is helping to revolutionize the way research is done. Used by more than 600,000 academics and industry researchers, Mendeley enables researchers to arrange collaborative projects, work and discuss in groups, as well as share data across its web platform. Launched in London in December 2008, Mendeley is already the world’s largest research collaboration platform. Through this platform, we anonymously pools users’ research paper collections, creating a crowd-sourced research database with a unique layer of social information - each research paper is connected with socio-demographic information about its audience.
Based on this platform and data, I will present three examples of how Mendeley is working to support university libraries and contribute to opening up academic research:
1) Mendeley’s integration as a workflow tool with institutional repositories with the aim of increasing IR deposit rates;
2) Application examples building on Mendeley’s API to showcase what is possible with the newly available type of usage data Mendeley is aggregating;
3) Preview of Mendeley’s library dashboard that will reveal content usage within an institution.
I would also hope that a subsequent discussion can address how you (the attendees) could envision Mendeley’s future in the library tech community.
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